Re: [Ganglia-developers] licencing issues (was: 3.0.2 release)

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd prefer to keep it BSD licensed, but I'm a BSD user. :) Note that > the FreeBSD code is currently under a four line BSD license and thus > can't be GPL'd. The third clause can probably be removed since it's all > UCB code and they rescinde

Re: [Ganglia-developers] licencing issues (was: 3.0.2 release)

2005-09-13 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:25:47PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > On 9/13/05, Stu Teasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The killer is the GPL code linked into libmetrics. AIUI there's no legal > > way to use GPL code in a BSD licenced project, as there is no allowance > > in GPL for "derivative

Re: [Ganglia-developers] licencing issues (was: 3.0.2 release)

2005-09-13 Thread michael chang
On 9/13/05, Stu Teasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The killer is the GPL code linked into libmetrics. AIUI there's no legal > way to use GPL code in a BSD licenced project, as there is no allowance > in GPL for "derivative works" to have anything other than a GPL licence. > > This rather wreck